Frances Barber
Acting
152 titles
Frances Barber (née Brookes, born 13 May 1958) is an English actress. She received Olivier Award nominations for her work in the plays Camille (1985), and Uncle Vanya (1997). Her film appearances include three collaborations with Gary Oldman in Prick Up Your Ears (1987), We Think the World of You (1988) and Dead Fish (2005); as well as Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987); Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992); and latterly Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017). Barber's numerous television credits include The Street (2009), Doctor Who (2011), Silk (2012–2014), and Whitstable Pearl (2021–2022).
Filmography
MUSIK
2026
A Hand to Hold
2026
The Secret Santa Project
2025
The People Before
2025
Hamlet
2024
Dreamland
2023
A Bird Flew In
2022
The Chelsea Detective
2022
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021
Whitstable Pearl
2021
Semi-Detached
2020
Trick or Treat
2019
Queens of Mystery
2019
Let's Talk About Sex
2019
The Queen and I
2018
Blue Iguana
2018
An Ideal Husband
2018
McKellen: Playing the Part
2018
The Escape
2018
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
The Bookshop
2017
Summer Comedy Shorts
2017
The Chosen
2016
The Rebel
2016
Mr. Holmes
2015
Mapp and Lucia
2014
Bucky
2014
Inside No. 9
2014
The IT Crowd Manual
2014
Bad Education: Christmas Special
2013
Muse of Fire
2013
Psychobitches
2013
The Spa
2013
Father Brown
2013
May I Kill U?
2013
Playhouse Presents
2012
We'll Take Manhattan
2012
Great Expectations
2011
Death in Paradise
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Friday Night Dinner
2011
Silk
2011
The Nativity
2010
Vexed
2010
Pete versus Life
2010
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
Law & Order: UK
2009
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
2008
Beautiful People
2008
King Lear
2008
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
Benidorm
2007
The Street
2006
The IT Crowd
2006
Hotel Babylon
2006
Funland
2005
Dead Fish
2005
Goal!
2005
Doctor Who
2005
His Passionate Bride
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Evilenko
2004
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
Hustle
2004
New Tricks
2004
Listening
2003
Boudica
2003
Monkey Dust
2003
Flyfishing
2003
Celeb
2002
The Red Siren
2002
Having It Off
2002
Superstition
2001
The Gentleman Thief
2001
Love in a Cold Climate
2001
Esther Kahn
2000
Shiner
2000
The Escort
1999
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
Plastic Man
1999
Plastic Man
1999
Toy Boys
1999
Gimme Gimme Gimme
1999
Still Crazy
1998
Just in Time
1998
Tea
1998
A Royal Scandal
1997
Photographing Fairies
1997
Ruby
1997
The Ice House
1997
Midsomer Murders
1997
Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
1996
Rhodes
1996
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
It Might Be You
1995
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
1995
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
1995
3 Steps to Heaven
1995
Scarborough Ahoy!
1994
Giorgino
1994
Space Precinct
1994
Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
1994
In The Cold Light Of Day
1994
Return to Blood River
1994
Fish Tale
1994
Rik Mayall Presents
1993
A Statement of Affairs
1993
Chef
1993
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
1993
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Hancock
1991
Young Soul Rebels
1991
Secret Friends
1991
Do Not Disturb
1991
The Orchid House
1991
The Grasscutter
1990
Separate Bedrooms
1989
The Nightmare Years
1989
Screen One
1989
Behaving Badly
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
We Think the World of You
1988
Red Dwarf
1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
Duck
1988
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Inspector Morse
1987
Casualty
1986
Castaway
1986
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
Screen Two
1985
White City
1985
Hard Feelings
1984
A Flame to the Phoenix
1983
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
Acceptable Levels
1983
The Missionary
1982
Timewatch
1982
Home Sweet Home
1982
An Audience with...
1978
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
Play for Today
1970
Omnibus
1967
From London with Love
The State of Us